New York is kicking Spectrum out of the state for ‘recurring failures’
In a highly-publicized 2016 merger, Charter bought out Time Warner Cable, significantly increasing its reach as one of the largest cable and internet service providers …
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Mars looks so weird right now
NASA’s Hubble might be aging rapidly but it’s still capable of taking some really, really fantastic photos. Scientists recently pointed the telescope at both Mars …
MoviePass went down on Thursday because the company ran out of cash
If anyone was unconvinced that MoviePass isn’t long for this world, an incident on Thursday night may have erased all doubt. Last night, MoviePass users …
Samsung just told us the Galaxy S10 won’t be an iPhone X clone
By all accounts, the Galaxy S10 will be the best thing to happen to the Galaxy S line in years, as Samsung is preparing several …
You can’t see the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st Century from the US, so watch live here
Last year, the United States got treated to an awesome skywatching event in the form of a total solar eclipse that traveled from one side …
Something has scared Facebook into spending another $10 million to protect Mark Zuckerberg
In response to what Facebook says are “specific threats” to the safety of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his family, the company says it’s spending another …
Worms frozen for 40,000 years were just brought back to life
What if you could freeze yourself for a hundred years and then wake back up in the future? Would you do it? How about 1,000 …
Apple Watch sales jumped by 30% last quarter despite intense competition
Since introducing the Apple Watch a little more than three years ago, Apple has steadfastly refused to release specific sales figures for its popular wearable. …
LG still can’t figure out how to turn things around for its mobile division
Electronics giant LG is out with earnings today that continue to paint a grim picture for its struggling mobile division — a division that spent …
Amazon’s mugshot AI says 28 members of Congress are known criminals
Identifying a criminal can be tricky for law enforcement when they’re on the hunt for a wanted person, which is why many agencies have begun …
Yikes: Facebook just suffered the biggest one-day loss in stock market history
The day after it reported disappointing earnings for the second quarter and its stock dramatically crashed, Facebook saw about $120 billion wiped from its market …
The United States will probably be late for its date with Mars
Mankind is determined to walk on the Red Planet sooner rather than later, and when man finally sets foot on Mars it’ll truly be a …
Comcast lost $185 million trying to be Verizon last quarter
In the spring of 2017, Comcast surprised the industry by taking a committed dive into the world of mobile, debuting a new brand called Xfinity …
A distant black hole just proved Albert Einstein was right
Albert Einstein dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge, even if he couldn’t always prove that his theories made sense. Many of the things …
How to enable Chrome’s secret Material Design update on desktop and iOS
Slowly but surely, Google is bringing its Chrome browser up to speed for 2018. Google has been rolling out elements of its latest Material Design …
Best Buy’s big ‘Black Friday in July’ sale is underway – here are all the best deals
It’s not exactly Prime Day, but Best Buy has a huge sales event of its own in July and it just kicked off on Thursday. …
The real cost of Facebook’s controversies: Nearly $150 billion in market cap gone in 90 minutes
The Facebook stock tanked back in March when the Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal hit, and it took the company quite a while to recover. …
Twitter is locking any account named ‘Elon Musk’ because crypto-currency scams are out of control
Anyone who’s made the mistake of wading into the unfiltered cesspool of an Elon Musk tweet’s replies will have noticed how bad the crypto-currency scams …
LG’s excellent G7 ThinQ is on sale for $629, and there’s zero carrier small print attached
Deals on smartphones aren’t hard to come by these days, but since almost all the good deals come from carriers, you have to wade through …
Guess which tech giant that’s good at crushing rivals may be the first company worth $1T
Books, retail, hardware, groceries — Amazon is such a sprawling enterprise today and such an effective e-commerce machine that it may soon have an eye-popping …
Long-forgotten ‘dinosaur’ bone turns out to actually be from an ancient hippo-like herbivore
Finding an fossilized bone on accident might be a pleasant surprise for scientists, or even a kid, but when dam workers in Japan stumbled across …
The Galaxy Note 9 is almost here, but some morons are still using the exploding Galaxy Note 7
Almost two years ago, Samsung rushed the Galaxy Note 7 to market in what would become a massive disaster for Samsung. Soon after launch, dozens …
Facebook’s disappointing Q2 earnings show why the company needs Instagram more than ever
Hours after its stock hit a record high during trading, Facebook reported its earnings for the second quarter and came in below analyst estimates on …
Researchers spot what looks like a standing ‘lake’ of water on Mars
The hunt for evidence of past or present life on Mars has gotten a number of boosts in recent decades, including the discovery of what …
I tried Casper’s new $2,400 mattress and it actually lived up to the hype
Whether or not you’ve ever tried one, the odds are good that you’ve heard of Casper mattresses. The company burst onto the scene in 2014 …
AT&T is winning back cord-cutters with DirecTV Now, but that doesn’t mean cable is saved
As we’ve documented at great lengths in the past, the cord-cutting phenomenon is accelerating rapidly, and showing no sign of slowing down any time soon. …
NASA explains why its insane mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ won’t end in catastrophe
NASA is going to send a spacecraft to the Sun. That, on its own, is pretty wild, but the fact that scientists plan on the …
Astronomers found the mangled remains of the Milky Way’s galactic twin
Science fiction disaster movies like to imagine what life on Earth might be like in the midst of a space-borne catastrophe like an asteroid strike, …
One of Kickstarter’s best bag companies is back with a killer new travel pack
If you’re a frequent traveler, a pro photographer with lots and lots of gear, or just someone who likes excellent bags, then you absolutely have …
174-million-year-old ‘Amazing Dragon’ dinosaur discovered in China
Ferocious carnivores like the Tyrannosaurus tend to take top billing when it comes to dinosaur pop culture, but the colossal plant-eaters known as sauropods are …
